The Institute for Green Science, led by Terry Collins, the Teresa Heinz Professor in Green Chemistry, has been established as a research, education and development center in which a holistic approach to green or sustainable chemistry is being developed, focused on pollution reduction. Research programs are evolving around the scientific and technological development of TAML® hydrogen peroxide activators, extensively patented, trademarked and commercialized by Carnegie Mellon University.

A new paper in the Journal of Clean Production calls for the submission of manuscripts to a special issue on systematic leadership toward sustainability. The authors are members of the Alliance for Strategic Sustainable Development, which is headquartered at the Blekinge Institute for Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Green Science is a founding institution.
"Systematic leadership towards sustainability", Göran Broman, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, George Basile, Tobias Larsson, Rupert Baumgartner, Terry Collins, Donald Huisingh, Journal of Cleaner Production (2013)

IGS researchers and collaborators at Oregon State University show how to use zebrafish embryo developmental assays to search for developmental disruption and to identify safer TAML activators for use in water treatment:
Zebrafish Assays as Developmental Toxicity Indicators in the Green Design of TAML Oxidation Catalysts, Lisa Truong, Matthew A. DeNardo, Soumen Kundu, Terrence J. Collins, and Robert L. Tanguay, Green Chemistry, 2013, accepted for publication: DOI:10.1039/C3GC40376A